Has anyone heard how the oil explosion has affected cruise ships?

[Gingee]

I was wondering if anyone knows how the oil explosion if it has affected the cruise ships?

[silverado44]

Mexican Riviera cruises from west coast are fine.

[bbwex]

I suspect that they will steam around the fire rather than going right through it. Not to belittle the loss of human life, but it's a dot on a very large wall. It should have no impact.

[paul929207]

I have not heard of any effect which I take to mean it has had no effect on cruise ships. There is plenty of sea for the ships to avoid the area of the disaster,

[Gingee]

I was just looking at the news report and it showed a star where it was in the ocean. From the reports it looks like it was right before you start to go down the river to New Orleans. No I wasn't concerned about our cruise.

[bbwex]

It's about 50 miles out to sea. At that point, it is, as I said before, a dot.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Won't affect any HAL ships -- none are left in the Caribbean for summer.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Opps -- take that back -- one HAL ship still has a 14 day cruise left before it heads out of the Caribbean -- but is not scheduled to be in that area.

[lady_cruiser]

While we do see oil rigs while either leaving out of the New Orleans or Galveston ports I don't think that it will affect any cruise line leaving or coming back to one of these ports. I am sure that our U.S. Coast Guard, port masters and ships' captains have plans in place to go around any rig fire/accident.